His side of the story

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/01/2015

Kanwar Sandhu, until recently executive editor of the Tribune, takes his professional battles to YouTube. When he was at a channel called Day and Night News, which he had launched, he posted a video on the problems he was having with cable MSO Fastway which distributed the channel. After his exit from the Tribune, he has posted a series of feisty videos alleging, among other things, that the paper kowtows to J&K governor NN Vohra, who is also a Tribune trustee. Another video announces his resignation and future plans. He helpfully produces these in both Punjabi and English.

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